NameThatPlant.net: Artemisia stelleriana

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Artemisia stelleriana FAMILY Asteraceae__ Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.

Read more about Beach Wormwood at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Artemisia stelleriana FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Artemisia stelleriana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Artemisia stelleriana

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) The genera of Anthemidae in the southeastern US (Arriagada & Miller, 1997)

Artemisia stellerana

COMMON NAME:
Beach Wormwood, Dusty Miller, Hoary Mugwort, Oldwoman

To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.

image of Artemisia stelleriana, Beach Wormwood, Dusty Miller, Hoary Mugwort, Oldwoman

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_arst6_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Artemisia stelleriana FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Artemisia stelleriana FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Artemisia stelleriana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Artemisia stelleriana

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) The genera of Anthemidae in the southeastern US (Arriagada & Miller, 1997)
Artemisia stellerana

4179

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Sandy roadsides, dunes, other disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Japan & northeast Asia

Rare

map
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

Invasive?

This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

Forest Health Assessment & Applied Sciences Team: New Invaders of the Northeast

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate
Leaf blade densely tomentose

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Disc: Pale yellow
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

New Invaders of the Northeast and Northcentral US (Rawlins et al., 2018) p089

"Our Great-Aunt Narcissa ... knew the names of all the wild flowers and she taught the names of them all to us — the small blue anemone that bloomed in ravines in February, the first of our blossoms and the purest blue, the flower of faith, of new hope; the bloodroot, the May apple, the wild yellow azalea, the corpse flower, the trailing arbutus, the purple gentian — the last blossoms of the autumn, struggling to perfection in the last minutes of existence." — Ben Robertson, Red Hills and Cotton

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